The Quiet Girl

 Our world has gotten more and more depersonalized by the minute. Adults throwing temper tantrums, not being able to log into a computer without it tracking your account to a certain device, and robots making decisions for us have become the norm. And this is the world that I graduated into to work in. Particularly in the last four years, I have seen people behave in ways that they should be ashamed of. I have seen six-year-olds behave much more maturely than many adults I have seen. I realize that I am only in the first few years of my working life, but not too long ago things were much better. The Internet, cell phones and email are all older than me, but I think we need much, much more moderation of what I grew up with that has now grown out of control. If things could go back to the way they were when I was a kid, and even as a young teenager, life would be so, so much better. I know I have said this before, we need to go back to the 2000s. I have shared on this blog the variou...

                                                                      cottonbro studio from Pexels  Artificial Intelligence is ruining what it means to be human. It is destroying the appreciation of the ability to create art from scratch, it is destroying what it means to work out problems by hand with another human being, and it is destroying our ability and appreciation of free thought. Further, it has made many people like that the computers are in charge of us rather than us being in charge of the computers.   I saw a nice cartoon once of someone that a person had made. I told them, "That looks great! What animation software did you use?" They then re...

 I wrote a post a few years ago about how much blue nail polish I own. Many of the bottles I owned then I used up a while ago. Sadly, I had a bottle my sister gave me, New York & Company's "Oceanic", that died recently because I used it all up. Last time I did my nails this color, which was last week, the polish didn't dry like it used to, and it was very thick and struggled to get off the brush. Sigh. This was one of my favorites. It was almost black, but blue like a deep night sky blue, and shimmery metallic.  My nail polish shelf. Notice how many bottles are blues. A dark teal mini OPI bottle which resides in my polish box with more polish and my nail tools, including a pair of blue glitter nail clippers. There are a few ideas I had for a replacement. I went to Sally's in between music students and found 2 different colors from O P I: "Yoga-ta Get This Blue" which is a dark blue slightly iridescent metallic color and I really liked, and "Chop...

 I recently placed a Chewy order for the first time. I ordered Shadowfax's food in bulk, and ordered $60 worth of cat food from Chewy and Walmart combined. I did this so as to avoid shipping costs, and to make sure Shadowfax always has something to eat.  The night I decided to do this, I had driven to the grocery store to see if there was any food for Shadowfax. Cat food, particularly Sheba, had become a rarity everywhere. There was nothing, I kid you not. Only 2 Fancy Feast cans were on the shelf! It was like finding a diamond when I was able to buy 1 month's worth of food for her after work once at a Walmart on the other side of town, in many flavors she liked. I usually buy her food by the month's supply. It was then that I made the choice to start buying her food in bulk, because I wasn't going to pay 99 cents for a Sheba when I could be paying 72 cents at Walmart or even 83 cents at Chewy, being guaranteed a box worth of food. This first time around I bought her 3 ...

 So, people, I tested positive. I felt some sinus pressure and congestion last week, and had a 99.1 temperature. So I tested, and I was negative. I got some rest. The fever didn't come back, so I thought I was fine. I took my Mucinex and Sudafed and returned to work the day after I tested negative. On Friday I tested again, and.....it was positive. It was positive even though the congestion was decreasing by the day and my temperature was normal. I even felt well enough to do 20 minutes on the stepper the day before. Today I have minimal congestion, and will probably clear up soon. I have been napping frequently and doing art and music, and drinking kombucha, apple cider vinegar, kefir, and green smoothies. I also have made vegetable soup with chicken and bone broth. I drank hot chocolate with 95% cocoa chocolate and cacao.  I just finished working on a snowglobe. I have worked on this project since before I got Covid, but I finished yesterday during quarantine. My boss gave m...

 I'm excited. Do you know why? Flare jeans are coming back! I have been buying many a pair and stocking up on them as they return to style. I found a pair of light-washed flare jeans at Loft for $39.99 this fall when they were having a sale. I decided to modify them and put slits on the sides, to look like a pair of flare jeans I saw online, but didn't feel like paying $88.00 for them:                                                         They will do just fine, they are more than good enough for me and comfortable.   I have also seen full-blown bell bottoms for sale and being in style now. I love hippie-style bohemian clothes. I honestly thought these jeans were outrageous when they first showed up, but then I saw an old friend wearing a pair, and I li...

In August I let my younger sister use my guest bed for her house at college. It was the bed on which I kept my blue, green and purple 2000's bedding (see the earlier post I wrote about 2000s styles). I was left with a wide open space. What should I do with this space now? I thought about buying a cheap, stylish futon for a while.  I love going to Target. I love their on-trend, often Bohemian hippie styles of home decor and furniture combined with the modernness of IKEA. One day by accident, I fell in love with the shelves full of lounge pillows. They were in yellow, red, green and blue, often with fringe on the ends. They were rolled up, and you unroll the pillow on the floor. They looked comfortable, and so being someone who enjoys a unique look, I decided this is what I wanted to replace the bed.  I went home and looked up the price of these lovely pillows. They looked so cute, but the price was not so cute. I looked on Amazon, but it was not the same. So, on a whim, I went ...